Since its inception in 1984, over 7 million youngsters have participated in the program.

Audubon envisions a future with a community of enlightened and informed citizens aware of the environmental outcomes of each of their activities. It is a community with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make informed choices between alternative courses of action that result in minimizing the negative effects on our environment.

Audubon Adventures introduce young people, their families, and their teachers, to the fundamental principles by which the natural world functions. Our publications for students and teachers give readers compelling examples and activities that show those principles at work.

When we achieve our goals, our readers have the foundation necessary for recognizing our individual and collective responsibility for the health of our environment. And out of that recognition comes understanding that personal actions can have meaningful, positive, and far-reaching effects.

Audubon Adventures is designed to help students achieve proficiency in language arts, science, and environmental literacy.

Because of increasing pressure on teachers to conform classroom content to mandated academic achievement standards, Audubon Adventures Classroom Kits include documents that correlate to specific sections of the academic achievement standards. The content is aligned with the national standards for the language arts and science.

The Education Committee
We met over the summer to finalize plans for outreach to teachers in Boulder Valley School District. Mary Balzer and Maureen Lawry (co-chairs) will be contacting the 3rd to 6th grade teachers by mid-September to offer them the National Audubon Society’s Audubon Adventures teacher’s kit, which is designed to supplement the science curriculum in each classroom. Each kit includes an Audubon poster, four seasonal newsletters, a resource manual for hands-on activities, a class certificate for participation, and a brochure on bird feeding basics. All information is in alignment with national educational standards for each grade. Themes for the kits this year are:

• Home Is Where the Nest Is!
• The Buzz about Native Bees
• Bats: Mammals on the Wing
• Wild about Birds featuring “The Legacy of John James Audubon”

Would you like to help educate the young students in our school district about birds and habitat conservation? Please sponsor one or more “Audubon Adventures” kits at $45 and we will let you know what school is benefiting from your help!

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